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myopicduck.bsky.social
@myopicduck.bsky.social
My job is literally just history

PhD student on 1800s Caribbean political culture @corpuscambridge.bsky.social
And you shall know the false shepherd by his mark
November 4, 2025 at 2:03 AM
the november ’24 label never misses
October 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Every time you Google colonial office records you get the bs machine telling you “that’s not real. are you sure you aren’t thinking of railway archives” or “idk, try searching somewhere else” and you have to scroll past it to find the exact thing you’re looking for in the first result. I love it!
October 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
every time
October 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
October 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I love that we are evaporating the oceans to power a robot that smugly and incorrectly tells you that you’re wrong above every Google search. That’s a good thing imo.
October 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
another day volunteering at the union jack museum. everyone keeps asking me if they can fuck the flag. buddy, they won’t even let me fuck it
October 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
that the govt was so overwhelmingly keen on having the fascist football goons come and start a riot makes me think it was them looking for a handy pretext for more restrictions on the Palestine protest movement. perhaps this is too conspiratorial and they were just stupid/lying though
October 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Barry Lyndon: B+. A little disjointed!!
October 17, 2025 at 9:57 PM
”I’m a little birthday boy“ is how you would joke a colonial travel narrative begins. Never dreamt I’d find one which literally does start with that
October 15, 2025 at 5:03 AM
As I always say
October 10, 2025 at 2:21 AM
October 8, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Portland Wizard Frog Daughter or German Mud Wizard Son?
October 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
ehehehe
October 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM
October 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Disco Elysium was a book with some game attached and I will not be excited by any single new “DE Inspired” ZAUM project/breakaway studio game/fan spinoff if it isn’t written by Kurvitz & Hindpere. It is uniformly meaningless slop like this, you cannot make me care, and I promise it will sell poorly.
September 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Leghmen and Shanghai crab noodles are close runners up though
September 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Lanzhou and Suzhou my beloveds
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
hanging out with The Chinese Uncles. walked all the way down a big canyon, got to go inside a giant turbine on a wind farm and now drinking whisky in simply ungodly quantities. truly uncles are a global phenomenon
September 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Your Party dot png
September 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
white-ish boy SHOCKS Lanzhou restaurant by ordering perfect beef noodles in passable english
September 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Use to only get these at the hairdresser as a kid so for the longest time only knew them as Hairdresser Biscuits. Ideal with a big hot cup of spiced or plain black tea, for dunking
September 18, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Da Humble Doctoral Students
September 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Much to say about how cool The Humble Administrator's Garden is but it's hard to get past how much Da Humble Administrator is a twitter handle sounding name
September 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Not to make a legally inadvisable tweet but: showing support for Palestine Action and opposing the genocide are actively and increasingly colocated. Demonstrating the wild lengths the state will go to against pensioners holding signs highlights to most people how wedded it is to the Israeli project.
September 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM